Will other countries ban UK flights?

jimi_man

[Deleted User] said:

Thrugelmir said:

sheramber said:

The government are hoping that escalating numbers of infection will persuade more people to get vaccinated. 

By now you'd have thought that people would have realised that Covid isn't just going to suddenly disappear. 

It practically has in other countries. It's just the UK where COVID is raging unrestrained.

Really? What countries are these then? Germany - rising sharply, Thailand - ditto, also Romania, Russia, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Czech republic, Hungary, Austria - basically a large part of Northern Europe. Even in places like Australia it's gathering momentum.

Interestingly, the UK seems to have stabilised/dropped slightly.

Just shows what can happen in the two weeks since you made this post! Covid isn't going away and it's not just unique to the UK either. 

Westin

...and no other flight bans in those two weeks that I am aware of either.

Butts

Westin said:

...and no other flight bans in those two weeks that I am aware of either.

And let's hope it stays that way !!

Currently in Athens, Greece and still got Albania and Turkey booked before Christmas.

eskbanker

Butts said:
still got Albania and Turkey booked before Christmas.

Always best to pre-order rather than rushing around on Christmas Eve....

Butts

eskbanker said:

Butts said:
still got Albania and Turkey booked before Christmas.

Always best to pre-order rather than rushing around on Christmas Eve....

As long as I'm not in for any stuffing I should be okay 

Check Albania out - no PLF to fill out prior to entry, just vaccination certificate required.

Makes a pleasant change.

[Deleted User]

jimi_man said:

[Deleted User] said:

Thrugelmir said:

sheramber said:

The government are hoping that escalating numbers of infection will persuade more people to get vaccinated. 

By now you'd have thought that people would have realised that Covid isn't just going to suddenly disappear. 

It practically has in other countries. It's just the UK where COVID is raging unrestrained.

Really? What countries are these then? Germany - rising sharply, Thailand - ditto, also Romania, Russia, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Czech republic, Hungary, Austria - basically a large part of Northern Europe. Even in places like Australia it's gathering momentum.

Interestingly, the UK seems to have stabilised/dropped slightly.

Just shows what can happen in the two weeks since you made this post! Covid isn't going away and it's not just unique to the UK either. 

You realise that quite a lot of time has passed since I posted that, right?

Anyway, we are still world beating when it comes to failing at COVID.

Ganga

[Deleted User] said:

jimi_man said:

[Deleted User] said:

Thrugelmir said:

sheramber said:

The government are hoping that escalating numbers of infection will persuade more people to get vaccinated. 

By now you'd have thought that people would have realised that Covid isn't just going to suddenly disappear. 

It practically has in other countries. It's just the UK where COVID is raging unrestrained.

Really? What countries are these then? Germany - rising sharply, Thailand - ditto, also Romania, Russia, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Czech republic, Hungary, Austria - basically a large part of Northern Europe. Even in places like Australia it's gathering momentum.

Interestingly, the UK seems to have stabilised/dropped slightly.

Just shows what can happen in the two weeks since you made this post! Covid isn't going away and it's not just unique to the UK either. 

You realise that quite a lot of time has passed since I posted that, right?

Anyway, we are still world beating when it comes to failing at COVID.

And the proof ? if you make a statement back it up with figures.

CKhalvashi

The UK has remained reasonably stable (within 25%/2 weeks up/down) since 28 July on the basis of date reported. Our current case levels in 2 weeks remain at around 720, which is a dip from 891 on 23 October.

Covid isn't going to go away, but I see further travel restrictions for the vaccinated as reasonably unlikely at this stage, possibly with some testing, unless a variant occurs. This has been a general trend since vaccines internationally have become more commonplace.

Many governments seem to be in agreement now with this view, but some are not. We've been in the 500-900 range per 100k since July 9 and haven't been above 900 since 21 January, before we had vaccines in large numbers and when the UK and Delta variants were relatively new. If the case rate rises significantly options may become more limited but there's no indication if we're sensible that this will be the case at this stage.

jimi_man

[Deleted User] said:

jimi_man said:

[Deleted User] said:

Thrugelmir said:

sheramber said:

The government are hoping that escalating numbers of infection will persuade more people to get vaccinated. 

By now you'd have thought that people would have realised that Covid isn't just going to suddenly disappear. 

It practically has in other countries. It's just the UK where COVID is raging unrestrained.

Really? What countries are these then? Germany - rising sharply, Thailand - ditto, also Romania, Russia, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Czech republic, Hungary, Austria - basically a large part of Northern Europe. Even in places like Australia it's gathering momentum.

Interestingly, the UK seems to have stabilised/dropped slightly.

Just shows what can happen in the two weeks since you made this post! Covid isn't going away and it's not just unique to the UK either. 

You realise that quite a lot of time has passed since I posted that, right?

Anyway, we are still world beating when it comes to failing at COVID.

Yup, two weeks as I said - 25th October. Most of Europe was on a steep climb at that time, starting from around mid October.

I'm not suggesting that we haven't made a mess of it (take into account that we test far more than virtually every other country in the world) but the assertion that that it had practically disappeared from other countries at that time, was just completely wrong and rather misleading. 

longjohnjohnson

[Deleted User] said:

jimi_man said:

[Deleted User] said:

Thrugelmir said:

sheramber said:

The government are hoping that escalating numbers of infection will persuade more people to get vaccinated. 

By now you'd have thought that people would have realised that Covid isn't just going to suddenly disappear. 

It practically has in other countries. It's just the UK where COVID is raging unrestrained.

Really? What countries are these then? Germany - rising sharply, Thailand - ditto, also Romania, Russia, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Czech republic, Hungary, Austria - basically a large part of Northern Europe. Even in places like Australia it's gathering momentum.

Interestingly, the UK seems to have stabilised/dropped slightly.

Just shows what can happen in the two weeks since you made this post! Covid isn't going away and it's not just unique to the UK either. 

You realise that quite a lot of time has passed since I posted that, right?

Anyway, we are still world beating when it comes to failing at COVID.

Meanwhile cases continue to skyrocket across Europe, Germany in particular...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59234443

And that's from BBC News so you know it must have felt difficult for that reporter to write that.

Positivity rates are generally higher across the continent, even though positive results are fewer, because they're testing far fewer.

There is no political debate forum on this forum for a reason, stop trying to start political debates by the back door.